Shelter Centre

Shelter Centre is a Swiss NGO which works to support all organisations which provide shelter to populations displaced by conflict or natural disaster.

Starting in University of Cambridge, 2004, it came out of an earlier initiative, [http://www.shelterproject.org ShelterProject.org] , which undertook research into equipment and standards used in the sector. Both were conceived and run as voluntary projects by Tom Corsellis and Antonella Vitale, both of whom now currently work as Shelter Centre's full-time co-directors. Shelter Centre transitioned from being a UK NGO to a Swiss NGO in the summer of 2008.

Shelter Centre organises the biannual sector forum, [http://www.sheltermeeting.org Shelter Meeting] , maintains the [http://www.shelterlibrary.org Shelter Library] and publishes policy documents and guidelines for field use. It is a non=operational aid agency.

In 2006, after having attained three years project funding from DFID, the Red Cross Federation, taking on the cluster lead for post-disaster shelter provision, invited Shelter Centre to work in its Geneva offices, from where it joined the Inter-Agency Standing Committee cluster initiative, participating in the three main clusters which include shelter.

External links

* [http://www.sheltercentre.org Shelter Centre]